I like this bullets thing. I'm just that lazy. SO, all about Tues...Coldplay, the Air France plane, G stuck at the airport, the thunderstorm! It was just so weird that the one time G was gonna be at to the airport that day, the big crash/fire happened.

• It wasn't good weather but nowhere near as bad as what L was sayin (apparently it was mad rainin where she was, cuz she lives in what we call Boonieland - about 10 mins drive from me, but not over here)
• It started rainin so bad that I thought it was hail pelting my window
• L made it over to my house and was freakin out about the roads bein flooded and if the Coldplay concert was gonna be cancelled...concerts are not called off if a lot of water keeps you from bein there, geez. Anyhow, I wasn't buyin $200 worth of tickets to NOT go
• G was at the airport seein off Heather and Sarah and tellin us that the traffic was heinous and she was still on the highway
• G then scares us about how she heard on the radio that there was a plane on fire at the airport
• Me and L get a ride downtown from my mom as she's goin to work and we hear about the plane...it crashed and everythin's in chaos. I was like, OMG tell me nobody died
• They were sayin that as far as they knew, there were no fatalities...apparently it skidded off the runway and hit a ditch (in the newspapers the day after, it looked so much worse)
• Flights were delayed, traffic was insane, there's all these ppl goin to concerts downtown - it was a crazy day for Toronto
• G tells us that obviously she might not make it down for the show and to go without her if she wasn't there in time
• The rain had stopped and me and L were downtown around 5:55, had to pick up the tickets from the closest Ticketmaster centre: the box office at Rogers Centre, which closed at 6...otherwise we'd have to walk alllll the way to Yonge & Dundas and walk all the way back to the ACC which is right beside Rogers Centre
• We ran up this monster flight of steps and across the way (well, I ran since I was "the one who can sprint" :P). The Rogers Centre is really big and it's circular and I didn't wanna run the distance around the whole thing just to find the box office was closer to the side I started from so I stopped a man in what looked like the uniform (actually he didn't even stop when I asked him). "Excuse me, do you work here at Skydome (what it used to be called, I can't bring myself to call it Rogers Centre, it's awkward and kinda lame)?" "No, I work at the Rogers Centre." He thought he was bein soooo clever. Clearly I'm in a hurry and I don't give a shit what it's really called, the guy didn't even stop walkin. I said, "Sorry, Rogers Centre," with a fake smile but on the inside I was rollin my eyes cuz I don't have time for this, ass! Ran down another monster flight of steps and around the corner to gate 7 (geez it's a lot of runnin for the distance of a STADIUM), got there with a min to spare with 2 ppl in front of me in line
• Got the tickets, took a break to catch our breaths and stop sweatin, haha (it was humid out) since we had 2 hrs til the concert
• Saw a lion dog (it really looked like a lion with the colour and the mane and the way it walked, but was a dog :P), got freaked out by a friggin pigeon that got too close for comfort, got food, went lookin for a battery for an automatic camera ($15, fuck! But it takes better long distance shots than the digital), saw the screamin teenyboppers outside for Canadian Idol, popped in the Jays Store
• Went thru the Skywalk, G called and said she was on her way...Justin dropped her off at the subway station so G went straight from work to the airport to downtown
• Met up with her, headed into the ACC and watched the openers Black Mountain...they were boring
• Our seats were in the 300s which we wanted cuz we didn't wanna pay 80 somethin bucks for price level 1 tickets, but they were like on diagonal from the side, just startin to go towards the back. We were closer that the ppl at the other end of the venue but we were lookin down on the stage and couldn't see any of the stuff on the screens for Coldplay or get the full effect of the light show as the ppl seein them from the front
• They played only a bit from the Parachutes album, the singles from A Rush of Blood to the Head (they also did "Warning Sign" which is one of my favs but not "Green Eyes" or "Amsterdam" but I guess they're not really arena material and probably would've lulled the audience), and most of the good songs from X & Y but not "A Message", booo
• At first the crowd was so Canadian in how subdued they were cuz I only saw a bunch of ppl boppin and jumpin around but then they got into it later on. When "Yellow" started, they had these big yellow balloons the size of ginormous beach balls bouncin around in the audience
• For "The Scientist", "Clocks", "In My Place", and "Fix You", everybody lost it and the whollllllle place sang...if you've never experienced it before, you need to. I dunno how to describe how it feels when more than 15,000 ppl are clapping in unison faster and faster while one of your favourite bands are right there, the atmosphere is crazy
• Chris Martin made a lot of small talk in between songs, they really love Toronto...he slipped in an improvised lyric about the plane crash during "Politik", said somethin about Celine Dion and then apologized for it, and apparently the beginning of "Fix You" was messed cuz he said they fucked up so they played it again :) He even ran behind the stage and up to the 200s where the empty seats were and sang from there for...I don't even remember what song, I was so entranced, haha

I took a lot of pix with the old school camera and my digital too. We were the first stop on their tour, it was so fuckin amazing. I heart Coldplay!!

Where do I start about our My Apartment experience?? G wasn't off work til 8 so any chances of catchin Jay-Z @ Much was out. We ended up headin downtown around 9:30 which is pretty late for the after work crowd/drink specials at My Apartment on Fridays. But the cheap drinks were allegedly til 11 so all we cared about was buyin 5 drinks at a time each and gettin our money's worth before then. We got there a bit after 10 and the cheap drink thing was bullshit! G bought 2 pineapple Malibus and a Sex on the Beach and it came out to 20 somethin bucks :P I think it was probably just on beer. Figures. Tho even I was pondering gettin a Marca Bavaria or any kind of honey beer if they had it, just cuz it was cheap! It's a nice place but it's kinda small. It's pretty much like...somebody's apartment with a danceflor and patio :P Me and G drank and chatted. We were standin at those tall bar tables talkin about her coworker's wedding when some random comes up (wasted of course...it astounds me how guys can get so drunk but you'd never know it til they started to talk) and asks what we're talkin about cuz we look so serious. I'm like, weddings are serious business, haha. We chatted for a bit, none of it really bein important or sensical at all but he was an interesting guy and not bad to look at. Me and G walked around to see what the rest of the bar looked like and we pretty much covered it in 30 seconds, haha. Good crowd tho, cuz it's the 'mature clientel' so everybody's older (girls at least 21, guys 23...it's actually a rule) but not too old that you'd worry about ppl your dad's age hittin on you. Anyway, I wanted to go look for that guy that interrupted us cuz he seemed like a fun person :P At first I thought he was there by himself and that's kinda weird cuz who does that? But we did end up spottin him with a friend so. So we were makin our way around the dancefloor when a guy stops me and says somethin to the effect of, "My friend thinks your friend is hot, he likes her jacket." I'm like, ummm...OK? Would you like me to tell her that? You wanna hook it up?

The weird thing is the guy that was into G wasn't even lookin our way even tho we were pretty much in front of him. He was talkin to another girl next to him (who we find out later is the gf of one of their other buddies). So obviously I thought the guy talkin to me was just screwin around like in grade school when you'd be like, my friend over there likes you, teeheehee! Either that or he was just find an excuse to pick me up too.

He eventually admitted gettin to talk to me was just a bonus of gettin his friend and G together. So his name was Charles and G's guy was...Ernie. If that's not the sexiest name I've heard, I don't know what is! Haha. At first glance, I just thought he looked like a Swedish hockey player cuz he was blond and tall and manly. Turns out the whole group of them besides Charles were from Newfoundland, with the slight accent and everythin. Aaaaand, they were hockey players! They all play in a league together. Apparently they had seen us since we had got in the bar. I'm like, were you like watchin us all night or somethin?? Haha. Cuz that'd be kinda creepy. Well me and G never did make it back to the dance floor cuz we spent the rest of the night talkin to the boys. Every time I looked over at Ernie and G they were in a constant, intense conversation and me and Charles are like, WHAT are they talkin about for long? Haha. Later on, G told me that every time she looked over at me and Charles we were "gettin close", haha. We were still there when the bar was closin and the lights came up :P

Ernie was nice, the other guys were nice, the gf was nice. Charles kept touchin me and let's just say he did everythin short of mackin but cuz I'm tryin not to be That Girl (apparently I have a rep of makin out with randoms all the time). So as easy as it would've been, I didn't kiss him at all...just to show that I can do it, haha. Oh and of course I can't forget to add that he had a lot to drink :P He kept askin to go out with him over the weekend or at least to come watch them at their hockey game. I can't even put our whole conversation thru the night in just a description. It was...some night. Anyways, they left as we did so they wanted to walk us to our car. It was kinda far so we had an interesting walk as we paired off. Hand-holdin, side-steppin horse poop, Charles callin my cell and leavin me a msg when I was right NEXT TO HIM, hangin around the car for about half an hr more, sprinklers on the lawn in the parkin lot goin off and washin the front end of G's car, some chick walkin by with her friends shoutin for us to get a room when we weren't even doin anythin.

Yeah, we got home around 4. I dunno if you can understand the significance of the night if you don't know G, haha. The whole concept of her bein with a guy like Ernie blows all our minds.

OK I'm really lazy to keep writin but I just had to be about the details of Fri night, the rest of the weekend will be in points.

• Got sick as I got home Fri night, woke up at 6:30 am and threw up...FOAM?? Yeah, I dunno either
• Was feelin so trashed that I slept in Sat afternoon and missed the Caribana parade downtown
• Went to Philthy McNasty's on Sat night with Al and L, invited Charles along
• Had the whole intense talk with him about me and "relationships", etc.
• Texting, voicemails, and phone convos here and there
• Went to L's work bbq on Sun with G, Sarah, and Al...ate the free food, played poker with some dude we met named Michael, "I think the veggie burger is bleeding (on the grill)". "That can't be good." "Wait...it's a veggie burger!" Hahaha.
• Me, L, Al, and G drove to Buffalo on Mon for some cross-border shoppin at the Walden Galleria mall and the outlet stores ALL DAY...leavin the house at 9:30 am and gettin home at 11 pm...almost had an inspection scare if the girls hadn't hidden their new purchases so well in the trunk :P
• Lastly, the Coldplay concert last night...amazing experience, all of yesterday's events later on...

Charles (I have to ask about a nickname cuz I need a way to shorten it, I keep callin him Charlie for some reason) added me to his MSN so there's no escaping except for the occasional block, haha. He just texted me about tonight's game. I was talkin to G at the concert and she said she wouldn't go unless Ernie called her about it himself cuz they hadn't talked over the weekend cuz he was at the cottage, so we'll see.

This was some 5 days of my life :P

Just a quick post to recap the long weekend:

A guy named Charles, Philthy's on Sat, a bbq, trip to Buffalo, it was crazy. And tonight....

COLDPLAY CONCERT!!!! That's right, biatches! Mama got tickets! :D

I'll update properly tomorrow. Peace!